Elementary stories
Original Korean stories written for this level, with comprehension questions.
Short stories
20 original stories written for this level, each with a comprehension check.
첫 회식
At her first team dinner, a new employee who can't drink is offered a glass of soju by her boss.
김지훈이 두 명
A young designer gets a very short message from the company president and spends the whole night fearing the worst.
잘못 간 떡볶이
Seoyeon orders spicy rice cakes late at night through a delivery app, but her food arrives somewhere else.
중고 밥솥
Taeyun sells an old rice cooker he has never used to a buyer who drives a hard bargain.
찜질방의 양머리
After a bad job interview, Soyun spends the evening alone at a bathhouse and meets a chatty stranger.
경주의 오래된 사진
Sua travels to Gyeongju with an old black-and-white photo of her grandmother, and her grandmother has one small question.
옥상의 범인
Ripe cherry tomatoes keep vanishing from Jaehyeon's rooftop garden in Gwangju, so he sets out to catch the thief.
커피가 나오셨습니다
A very polite café worker learns from a retired teacher that he has been honouring the coffee instead of the customers.
여섯 시의 눈치 게임
Nobody on the team wants to be the first to go home, until a new intern does something nobody expects.
사무실의 마니또
In the office's secret gift game, Yerin draws the name of the strictest manager in the company.
책 속의 메모
Harin finds a pencilled note in a library book and starts answering a stranger she has never seen.
할아버지의 팔순
The whole family gathers in an Andong village for Grandpa's eightieth birthday, but he only wants one present.
아빠의 전주
Somin takes her newly retired father on a trip to Jeonju, and he seems to know the city strangely well.
약국에서 만난 짝
With a bad cold on a Sunday, Taehyeon goes to the only open pharmacy and meets someone from his past.
엄마는 산을 잘 타요
Yuna takes her retired mother hiking on Bukhansan, worried that the climb will be too hard for her.
에밀리의 일기
A Canadian student keeps a diary of her first spring in a Seoul boarding house and its loud, kind landlady.
달팽이 우체부
A frog gives an important letter to the slowest animal in the forest, and everyone thinks he has made a mistake.
마지막 두 사람
In her first ten-kilometre race in Chuncheon, Naeun gets a cramp, and an old runner stops to help her.
해가 안 뜬 아침
Two old friends take the night train to Gangneung to watch the first sunrise of the year, and the sky has other plans.
스마트폰 교실
At a smartphone class for seniors in Daegu, one grandfather keeps asking the same question every single week.